Narrated by Walt Disney, fairgoers hopped into Fords on a journey from the age of the dinosaurs to the invention of the wheel to a "highway in the sky carrying you across the boundless night and out into time and space." The audio-animatronic dinosaurs and cavemen of Magic Skyway would be familiar to anyone visiting a Disney park today, as Epcot's Spaceship Earth, Universe of Energy and World of Motion (R.I.P.) all look like they drew quite a bit of inspiration from this attraction.

At the end of the ride Walt's familiar voice proclaimed, "perhaps someday we'll be riding rocketships like those flashing overhead to anywhere in space. Perhaps someday we will drive jet-powered vehicles over weather-controlled highways in the sky like those spiralling tubes around you." Perhaps indeed.

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Actually, the dinosaurs were moved to Disneyland in Anaheim -- they're in the tunnel of the Disneyland Railroad, right after the Grand Canyon display. You can watch a 2007 video of them here. I saw them in the mid-eighties, and was quite excited because I recognized them from the 1964 World's Fair issue of National Geographic. They don't look like they've changed a bit since '64, other than the brontosaurus display being rearranged a bit. (It's good to see old-school brontos again.)